Episode #402 – No You Got Your NPR Shows Confused

A bit of a delay this week but we think it’s worth it. The guys have you covered on all of the week’s pop culture and entertainment news as always!

Spoilers for Loki @ 01:35:46

  • Levar Burton replaces Drew Barrymore
  • Jada says her and Will have been separated since 2016
  • Piper Laurie, Phyllis Coates, Suzanne Somers, and Keith Giffen passed away
  • Dreamworks animation lays off 70 people
  • Blumhouse/Atomic Monster merger “very close”
  • Best Buy will stop selling physical discs
  • SAG/AMPTP talks stop
  • Taylor Swift makes more of all the money
  • Kick-Ass reboot coming
  • Thin Man reboot
  • Heat 2 moving forward
  • Iron Claw trailer
  • Based on a True Story gets season 2
  • Frasier reboot not good
  • A bunch of new guest hosts announced for The Daily Show
  • Scott Pilgrim trailer
  • 39% of Subscribers Will ‘Most Likely’ Cancel Subscriptions if Prices Increase
  • Afterparty canceled
  • Monarch: Legacy of Monsters trailer 
  • Suits something in development
  • Miramax gets tv rights to Halloween
  • New voice of Mario is some guy named Kevin
  • Microsoft/Activision deal closes
  • CDPR unionizing
  • John Riccitiello is out at Unity, effective immediately
  • Disney testing roaming droids at the park
  • Blue Beetle lowest grossing DCEU flick
  • Aquabro 2 is a mess
  • Daredevil reboot being rebooted
  • The Marvels tracking soft
  • Loki backlash over use of AI in marketing

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Episode #400 – Our Own Dark Fate

We can’t believe it but come celebrate the end of the WGA strike and our 400th episode! What a ride it’s been. As always the guys have you covered on all the week’s entertainment and pop culture news!

Spoilers for Only Murders @ 01:02:00     Ahsoka @ 01:09:44

  • Google Podcasts shutting down
  • Michael Gambon passes away at 82
  • Red Sox pitching legend Tim Wakefield passes away at 57
  • .The strike is over. WGA and AMPTP settle
  • SAG/AFTRA go to the table Monday
  • Streaming leaders team up to form SIALG
  • New Golden Globes categories for blockbusters and Stand-up
  • Paw Patrol #1 at box office but Saw X beating Spiral
  • Argylle trailer
  • The Toxic Avenger trailer
  • 4k versions of Titanic and The Abyss are coming to BluRay
  • Home Economics canceled at ABC
  • Heels canceled at Starz
  • While You Were Breeding canceled at Freeform
  • First looks for Tomb Raider and Devil May Cry animes
  • AMC+ has an ad tier apparently
  • Epic lays off 870 people
  • SAG Video Game actors vote to strike
  • Airplane! writer-directors team up with a bunch of celebs for an audiobook version of Surely You Can’t be Serious
  • Butt Cam trailers for Andor s2 and The Acolyte leak online
  • Gunn reminds people that nothing is in the DCU until Creature Commandos
  • X-Men movie writer pitches are next on the docket
  • Silver Sable movie dead

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Episode #398 – Andy Dick Has Physically Accosted Me In Real Life

The guys are back for another week of pop culture and entertainment news, and hey look at that! No deaths!

Spoilers for: Only Murders in the Building @ 01:04:10  Ahsoka @ 01:07:17

  • Drew Barrymore shuts her show down
  • Aaron Rogers tears his achilles on his first drive as a NY Jet
  • Russell Brand accused of sexual assault
  • Marvel VFX workers vote to join IATSE
  • WGA and AMPTPTPTP back at the table
  • Oppenheimer hits $900MM
  • Wonder Years canceled
  • NBC suspends Dwayne and Lorne’s deals
  • Frasier trailer
  •  LEGO Masters renewed and LM Junior announced
  • One Piece renewed
  • Kite-Man teaser
  • Totally Killer trailer 
  • Unity updated its pricing terms
  • Buffy sequel coming to Audible with a lot of the OG cast
  • The Rock returned to wrestling
  • Lando is now a movie
  • Aquabro 2 trailer 
  • Werewolf by Night in color!

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Episode #396 – Oonta Goota, Solo?

This week Loren takes a solo flight as the rest of the team are off on assignment. But don’t worry he’s got you covered on all the week’s entertainment and pop culture news.

Spoilers: The Afterparty @ 17:03  Ahsoka  @ 18:17

  • Jimmy Buffett dead at 76
  • Leaked DGA email openly advocating to not elect multi hyphenates to board
  • Disney VFX workers officially file for Unionization with IATSE
  • Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon will now get a wide release
  • Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert film has $37m presale, headed for $70m opening
  • LEGO Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling
  • The Lincoln Lawyer gets a season 3
  • The Great and HIMYF canceled
  • The Idol canceled because it was apparently the worst show to ever exist
  • AMC+ content coming to Max… for 2 months
  • CM Punk fired by AEW
  • Saint’s Row studio Volition shuttered by parent company Embracer Group
  • SAG-AFTRA unanimously votes to send strike authorization to Interactive Media voice actors
  • Youtube Music adds Youtube like comments to it’s UI
  • What If s2, Echo, X-Men 97, Agatha something something all moving

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Episode #395 – And a Happy National Cinema Day to You and Yours

It’s a National Cinema Day miracle as the guys get together for another episode.

Spoilers for: The Afterparty  @  01:09:06  Ahsoka  @  01:12:39

  • Bob Barker gets as close to 100 without going over
  • Harley Quinn inspiration and voice Arleen Sorkin passes away at 67
  • WWE’s Windham Rotunda aka Bray Wyatt passes away way too early at 36
  • Wrestling legend Terry Funk has his final death match at 89
  • Carlos Santana kinda sucks, is a TERF
  • AMPTP leaks the (shitty) terms of their offer and it completely backfires
  • Happy National Cinema Day!
  • Barbie and Gran Turismo tied for first place at the Box Office
  • BB drops to third but only by 49%
  • Dune 2 pushed to March next year, Godzilla x Kong moves to April, Animated LOTR moves to December (2024)
  • Wonka, Aquabro and Color Purple remain as of now
  •  Not Another Church Movie
  • Frasier reboot teaser
  • Good Burger 2 teaser 
  • The CW sucks… didn’t inform Nancy Drew staff they weren’t being renewed until a scheduling call was made
  • Fully completed shows Spiderwick Chronicles and Nautilus scrapped at Disney+
  • Doogie done after 2 seasons
  • D23 lineup
  • D+ series coming to Blu-ray
  • And Just Like That…. renewed at MAX
  • Charles Martinet no longer voicing Mario
  • CBR continues to kinda suck
  • Go ahead and keep your Netflix discs
  • David Ayer won’t stop talking about Suicide Squad
  • Rebel Moon trailer

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Episode #393 – We’re Corruptible, We’ll Take Bribes

The strikes continue but so does the news. The guys have you covered as always on the pop culture and entertainment week that was.

Spoilers for The Afterparty @01:24:42 and Star Trek: SNW  @01:26:56

  • Iger walks back his strike comments
  • Adam Devine walks back his Marvel comedy comments
  • Sound of Freedom backer arrested for felony kidnapping
  • Networks and streamers have all passed on Golden Globes
  • William Friedkin passes away
  • Johnny Hardwick passes away
  • Sandra Bullock’s partner Bryan Randall passes away from ALS
  • WGA and AMPTP back at the table
  • Marvel VFX crew moving forward with unionization
  • Barbie hits its bildo
  • Louis Letterier walks back F&F trilogy talk
  • Contestant booted from Big Brother for dropping the n-word
  • Jodie Sweetin disappointed new movie ended up on GAF
  • D+ ups its prices
  • Over the Garden Wall being removed from Max
  • HBO orders The Franchise
  • Max may get into live sports
  • Gizmodo editor sues AppleTV+ over Tetris movie
  • Blue Beetle is the best DCU movie ever, we guess, **shrugs**
  • WW3 is NOT in development
  • The Marvels is….. wacky…?

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Episode #391 – Barbie Is Great, Sorry “Ken” Shapiro

The guys actually saw some movies in the theater this week and there’s lots of entertainment and pop culture news to talk about.
Spoilers for:
The Afterparty @ 00:59:04 – MIDRP1 @ 01:01:12 – ST: SNW @ 01:09:04 – Secret Invasion @ 01:16:11

  • Twitter’s rebrand to X is dumb
  • Sinead O’Connor passes away at 56
  • Netflix posts a job for $900k AI Product Manager
  • AI Casting? Cordelia says nope
  • Tosh.0 producer wants to make an AI based CNN
  • TV Commercial production workers unionize with IATSE
  • DTRJ gives a 7 figure donation to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation relief fund
  • Barbenheimer continues to make all the money
  • Sony pushes a bunch of movies into 2024
  • Disney may as well
  • TMNT Mutant Mayhem sequel and series in the works ahead of debut
  • Polly Pocket is coming
  • The Exorcist Believer trailer
  • SAW X Trailer
  • Jeopardy champs decline to join tournament of champions during the strike
  • General Hospital hires temp writers amid WGA strike
  • Suits is huge on Netflix
  • Up Here canceled after one season
  • The Righteous Gemstones renewed for season 4
  • DC to create a female version of Hush called Shush
  • Justin Simien out, Donald and Stephen Glover in to write Lando series

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Episode #389 – Skeeter Syndrome and Strike Talk

Another week and another episode! The guys are covering all the week’s entertainment and pop culture news including a deep dive into SAG/AFTRA joining the strike fray.

  • Someone shouted “Go Home Meatball!” at Ron DeSantis and that’s just great
  • DC/WBD planning on selling The Flash NFTs
  • Bob Iger is not the chosen one
  • Fran Drescher attends Dolce and Gabbana event in Italy before the strike
  • But then gives impassioned speech to win the fans back
  • Jim Cavievzel is garbage
  • Cartoon Network studios building in Burbank going away
  • SAG/AFTRA join the WGA on the picket lines
  • British union Actor’s Equity different and can continue
  • Oppenheimer cast walks out of premiere as strike starts
  • Deadpool 3, Venom 3, MI:DRP2, Gladiator 2, Beetlejuice 2 all halt production
  • You TikTok’d all over my RedBox
  • Godzilla Minus One teaser
  • Wonka trailer
  • Borderlands movie is a shit show
  • Disney open to selling ABC and FX but not ESPN and Hulu
  • Ms. Marvel to air on ABC
  • The Idol is officially the worst HBO show
  • Ms. Marvel reborn mere months after character is killed off in the comics
  • Reddit continues its downward spiral, removes years of chats and messages
  • Fast & Furious roller coaster coming to Universal Hollywood
  • Ahsoka trailer
  • Superman: Legacy adds more superheroes
  • Blue Beetle trailer

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Episode #387 – Working Red & White, But Mostly Blue

The guys are back after a long Holiday Weekend to give you their 2 cents on the week’s Hollywood News (just like it says on the side of the tin!)
Spoilers for  ST: SNW @ 01:14:23  Secret Invasion @ 01:16:13  Silo @ 01:20:48

  • Twitter to start limiting the # of Tweets you can view in a day
  • Stitcher is being discontinued
  • Fire on the WBD lot
  • Alan Arkin dies
  • Plex lays of 20% of its staff
  • SAG negotiations extended 2 weeks
  • LA City Council supports WGA
  • Dial of Destiny opens soft w/$60MM US/ $70MM international
  • The Flash could become WB’s greatest box office failure
  • Fast X hits $700MM
  • Evan Peters joins Tron 3
  • Five Nights @ Freddie’s trailer 
  • NBCUniversal starting their own FAST service
  • Inside Amy Shumer pulled from P+ and Comedy Central
  • Single Drunk Female and The Watchful Eye canceled @ Freeform
  • Reservation Dogs canceled @ FX
  • Gattaca, Seasoned, Split, Sweetness all not moving forward @ Showtime
  • Warrior Nun picked up by…. someone
  • Netflix removing basic plan in Canada
  • The Other Two canceled
  • Roland Emmerich starting NFT-based shared universe
  • Among Us animated series in development
  • Gollum studio will stop making games
  • John Boyega rumored to be returning for Rey movie
  • Coronswet/Brosnahan cast as Clark and Lois in Superman: Legacy

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Episode #385 – The Definitive HPN Franchise Rankings

A little bit different this week, the guys forego the news in favor of making a definitive list of where each movie in major franchises sit. From perennial favorite The Fast and Furious franchise, all the way to Robert Rodriquez’ Mexico Trilogy. It’s been a long time coming, so join them for the ride.

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